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f true insects. The larvæ, when first hatched, often have but three pairs of legs. See Centiped, Galleyworm, Milliped.

material, each divided into nine spaces, and containing the numbers of a column of the multiplication table; -- a contrivance of Baron Napier, the inventor of logarithms, for facilitating the operations of multiplication and division.

onate quantity of the primary colors employed. This method is also known as Pointillism (stippling).

The tip, or earliest part, of a univalve or bivalve shell.

Hydra), which has slender rootstocks bearing small, nutlike tubers, by which the plant multiplies exceedingly, especially in cotton fields. -- Nut lock, a device, as a metal plate bent up at the corners, to prevent a nut from becoming unscrewed, as by jarring. -- Nut pine. (Bot.) See under Pine. -- Nut rush (Bot.),…

Totipalmate; -- said of the feet of certain birds. See Illust. of Aves. Oared shrew (Zoöl.), an aquatic European shrew (Crossopus ciliatus); -- called also black water shrew.

A kind of sheath formed by two stipules united round a stem.

Provided with ochrea, or sheathformed stipules, as the rhubarb, yellow dock, and knotgrass.

ylic force. [Archaic] That od force of German Reichenbach Which still, from female finger tips, burnt blue. Mrs. Browning.

rnum which projects forward from between the clavicles in many batrachians and is usually tipped with cartilage.

In addition to; besides; -- indicating multiplication or succession in a series; as, heaps on heaps; mischief on mischief; loss on loss; thought on thought. Shak.

d to the stork; -- so called because the two parts of the bill touch only at the base and tip. One species inhabits India, another Africa. Called also open- beak. See Illust. (m), under Beak.

Repugnance; contrariety of sentiment, interest, or purpose; antipathy. Shak.

A stipulated privilege, given to a party in a time contract, of demanding its fulfillment on any day within a specified limit. Buyer's option, an option allowed to one who contracts to buy stocks at a certain future date and at a certain price, to demand the delivery of the stock (giving one day's notice) at any previo…

To take away; to remove. Multiplication of actions upon the case were rare, formerly, and thereby wager of law ousted. Sir M. Hale.

A way out; exit. [R.] In divers streets and outways multiplied. P. Fletcher.

Having an ovate form, but with a subulate tip or extremity.

the top; as, to turn (one's self) over; to roll a stone over; to turn over the leaves; to tip over a cart.

To turn or tip (anything) over from an upright, or a proper, position so that it lies upon its side or bottom upwards; to upset; as, to overset a chair, a coach, a ship, or a building. Dryden.

Work in excess of the usual or stipulated time or quantity; extra work; also, excessive labor.